Overnight I used this to clone my dual USB to an external drive. Couple questions.

1. How do you boot from this drive? and in the case of an emergency? I see a bunch of folders on the external.

2. Two new folders were created on computer desktop. One with Mac OS X box icon in it and a hard drive alias. Can I trash these?

Help would be appreciated.

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Da Good Life

> 2. Two new folders were created on computer desktop. One
> with Mac OS X box icon in it and a hard drive alias. Can I
> trash these?

'No idea why 2 new folders should have been created. CCC doesn't ordinarily do that. What are the names of the folders? What's inside the OS X folder? Which drive does the alias link to?


> 1. How do you boot from this drive?

If it's a FireWire drive and if you used CCC properly then you would use the Startup Disk preference panel to select it as a startup drive and then reboot.

It's a good idea to check that drive by booting off of it as your description of what you're seeing is weird. The contents of the drive should look just like the contents of your boot drive.

The one folder has a box icon with "MacOSX-File-0.66.pkg", clicking it starts a loading process which takes seconds. The other is just that, an alias of the hard drive icon I have on my desktop. Clicking it shows hard drive contents.

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Da Good Life

try sending an email to Mike Bombich, the creator of CCC. I've found in the past that he's really responsive.

I think you made a netboot install image, dude.

If you look at the contents of the external drive and it doesn't look just like the contents of your boot drive then you didn't make a bootable clone.

I'd start over again. I'm assuming that the contents of the external drive are not valuable...

Use the Disk Utility to erase the external drive (use Mac OS Extended... journaling doesn't matter);

Run CCC, select your Source Disk and Target Disk;

Click on the prefs button and make sure that the pref's are set to make a bootable volume and that all of the Disk Image options are un-checked;

Make sure that the Synchronization options are also un-checked;

Exit the pref's;

Click the lock icon, enter your password, click the Clone button and let 'er rip.

Copy seems to work fine and look identical. I am running off it now. The appearance of the contents clicking on the external put me off. Thanks for the hints. Now I will wait a week or so and try and sync although having CCC do the whole drive overnight would not be a problem once in a while.

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Da Good Life

> Copy seems to work fine and look identical. I am running off it now.

Well, that's weird. If the drive has all of your files then you didn't make a disk image by mistake. So where'd the image come from?

If you ever figure out where the disk image came from, please post it.

It has an icon of an open cardboard box and loading it creates another external drive icon which when it is loaded does not seem to do anything. It is on external also. Unneccessary stuff? Wish me luck I am going to trash it. Thanks Macmagus I feel fully protected now or know what to do if and when I get that new G4 toy.

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Da Good Life

Mike works for Apple now... To my knowledge - there has been no CCC update now since late 2003.

I have been using Drive Genius which does a sector copy - works awesome. Super Duper good. Other options too.

Drive Genius is a good option for me because the size of the two drives is about the same and with most of the drive used... but I think it's still faster than most file copy options even where the source has a lot of free space.

Anyway - I personally stopped using CCC after 10.3.5 or thereabouts when it started giving me permission problems on the cloned volume that repeated with each clone.

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OWC Larry
Other World Computing
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I just backedup with CCC. Worked fine. I can select the folder as a boot folder. Superduper gave me trouble...error in permissions.

As a 2 hr back-up process, I'm not willing to waste more time to trouble shoot...so I'll stick with CCC until a future date where I must look to better alternatives.

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larry - you like druve genius more than retrospect for this task?

Drive Genius is a lot faster. Yes.

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OWC Larry
Other World Computing
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